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Actually, the studies show the opposite to be true.

When you’re not happy or when you’re not happily achieving your goals, you tend to experience more stress, frustration, and anger along the way. These negative emotions in your body actually contribute to disease. You’ll notice it in the weakest part of your body first. So how can having a weakened immune system and poor health add to your motivation to achieve your goals? It can’t.
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Make a list of what you are grateful for. Read your list and try to get the feeling of gratitude as soon as you wake up every morning and in the evening right before you go to bed. If you only do this once a day, do it in the morning.

I actually made a recording of what I’m grateful for and instead of a loud, obnoxious alarm clock that startles me out of my sleep, I’m gently awakened with the cassette tape that plays my voice reminding me of what I’m grateful for. It’s a great way to begin your day. Rather than focusing on what you don’t have, this helps you focus on, and be thankful for, what you do have.

Here’s something else you can do right now. Read more »

Everyone has his or her own definition of happiness. However, if you want to live a happy life, then you may want to model people who are living a happy life and adopt their definition, which includes the following: Read more »

In my opinion, the ultimate success is living a happy life.

Warning: This is an “EYES CLOSED” meditation. Do not listen to it while driving a car or operating machinery or doing anything that requires that you have your eyes opened or your full attention. Read more »

Condensed version for experienced users: Create a new set list in iTunes. drag your MP3 or other audio format, i.e., WAV, AIFF, etc. files into your iTunes set list, make sure the total length of the set list doesn’t exceed the maximum capacity of your blank CD (70 minutes is standard), and then click the “Burn Disc” button in iTunes.

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In my happiness workshops, I ask people, “What is beyond your control? What DON’T you have complete control over?”

I get answers like the weather, taxes, accidents, natural disasters, your boss, your significant other, etc., which is true.

Then I ask them, “What do you have total and complete control over?” I hear things like: yourself, what you eat, what you wear, what time you get up, your actions, and your attitude.

Actually, I think Napoleon Hill was more correct when he said the ONLY thing over which you have total and complete control is Read more »

“All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.” — Horace Friess

“Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.” — J. Donald Walters

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” — Marcus Aurelius Read more »

There are as many definitions of happiness as there are people on the planet. So why should you read any further? Because we make it up and since we make it up, maybe we should consider modifying it to better support our intention to be happy. But modifying it to what? Read more »

We’ll get into the subjective definition of “happy” in a subsequent post. But in case you’re wondering what “23-7″ means…

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